John Kerry Condemns Trump’s ‘Blooper Reel’ Foreign Policy: ‘He Breaks Up With Our Allies and Writes Love Letters to Dictators’

Former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry condemned President Donald Trump’s “blooper reel” foreign policy on the second night of the DNC convention, calling out the president, who “breaks up with our allies and writes love letters to dictators.”

Kerry, who was also a Senate colleague of Biden’s for 24 years, touted the Obama-Biden administration’s record while contrasting it with that of Trump’s.

“For the eight years of the Obama-Biden administration, we led by example,” Kerry said, before making the case for his and Biden’s legacy. “We eliminated the threat of an Iran with a nuclear weapon. We built a 68-nation coalition to destroy ISIS. We forged 195-nation agreement to attack climate change. We stopped Ebola before it became a pandemic. President Trump inherited a growing economy and a more peaceful world. And like everything else he inherited, he bankrupted it.”

“When this president goes overseas, it isn’t goodwill mission, it’s a blooper reel,” Kerry then said, pivoting to Trump. “He breaks up with our allies and writes love letters to dictators. America deserves a president who is looked up to, not laughed at.”

Kerry was alluding to surveys like a global Pew poll from earlier in 2020, before the pandemic, that found 64% of those in 25 foreign nations had no confidence in Trump’s leadership. And NATO leaders were infamously caught on tape mocking and laughing at Trump.

“President Trump pretends Russia didn’t attack our elections. And now he does nothing about Russia putting a bounty on our troops,” Kerry noted. “So he won’t defend our country. He doesn’t know how to defend our troops. The only person he’s interested in defending is himself. This is the bottom line — our interests, our ideals, and our brave men and women in uniform can’t afford four more years of President Trump. Our troops can’t get out of harm’s way by hiding in the White House bunker. They need a president who will stand up for them, and President Biden will.”

Kerry then turned back to the homefront to offer more criticism of the poor example Trump is setting here.

“He knows you can’t spread democracy around the world if you don’t practice it at home. And he knows that even the United States of America needs friends on this planet,” Kerry said of Biden. “Before President Trump, we used to talk about American exceptionalism. The only thing exceptional about the incoherent Trump foreign policy, is it’s made our nation more isolated than ever before. Joe Biden knows we aren’t exceptional because we bluster that we are, we are exceptional because we do exceptional things. On June 6, 1944, young Americans gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy, to liberate the world from tyranny. Out of the ashes of that war, we made peace and rebuilt the world. That was and remains exceptional. It is the opposite of everything President Trump stands for. This moment is a fight for the security of American and the world. Only Joe Biden can make America lead like America again.”

Watch the video above, via MSNBC.